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While I do agree that Max Payne 3 is on the offensive side with it's mini-cutscenes, it's awesome as what it is. A marvelous piece of story telling. I wouldn't start a hate train on the subject though, since it was well known before release that this was how things were going to be.

I prefer it to fucking annoyingly long elevators and smug elevator lady announcements...

Unskippable cutscenes have been a constant gripe of journalists, but it has been explicitly stated that they are often used to hide the "streaming" of the rest of the level.

The thing is, that technique only makes sense on consoles streaming from a DVD. Those of us with HDD or, lordy, an SSD, have marginal loading times. But it's very, very rare for a "skip" option to appear for loading-hiding cutscenes for those of us with PCs...

when they let you play, yes. my issue isn't with the amount of cutscenes, really, but that they happen so often when entering a room full of people who want to shoot you. so the game dictates your starting position, etc.

i really miss quicksaves.

edit: also, another thing i can't stand, is that after said cutscenes, the game also decides what weapons you have equipped. so i always have to spent the first second of people shooting at me switching weapons. a minor annoyance, but it happens so often that it really adds up.

as far as i can tell, arcade doesn't stop the cutscenes. i only played part of a chapter, but the same cinematics played.

lol are you serious? So what's the point then? Also, anyone not wanting this game for the multiplayer just save yourself $60/50€ and watch a full walkthrough on youtube, it's pretty much the same thing